Well, Quite

August 24, 2018 Longrider Civil Liberties, Consumer Matters, General News, General Rants, Health and Fitness, misanthropy, Political 7

“Given the pleasure presumably associated with moderate drinking, claiming there is no ‘safe’ level does not seem an argument for abstention,” he said. “There is no safe level of driving, but government do not recommend that people avoid driving. Come to think of it, there is no safe level of living, but nobody would recommend abstention.”

Indeed.

The study is the usual temperance nonsense designed to ensure that we live long, dull, pleasure-free lives. Typical health Nazis. They can fuck right off.

7 Comments

  1. FFS – those charts in the Guardian article.

    “97.1% of men in Denmark drink alcohol compared with only 0.8% in Pakistan”
    “95.3% of women in Denmark drink alcohol compared with only 0.3% in Bangladesh”

    I wonder why that might be, Guardian? Free choice, maybe – especially for the women? And what are the relative life expectancy in each case? Bangladesh/Pakistan obviously will be higher, no?

    What a grubby rag that is.

  2. I’m reading this with a lovely jar of Carlsberg Export by my side. I have discovered an upside to this puritanical crap. I’m currently having to make decisions about what to do with my pension funds. Apparently, if being a moderate drinker has a negative effect on my life expectancy it means that if I purchase an annuity it will pay more. Sadly I suspect that those who make the calculations are pretty likely to take studies like this with a pinch of salt.

  3. Did they study the relationship between alcohol consumption and child sexual grooming and terrorism?

  4. The study is the usual temperance nonsense designed to ensure that we live long, dull, pleasure-free lives. Typical health Nazis.

    Yep. Probably want motorcycles banned too.

    Is Gorgon Brown still PM?

  5. The ‘no-safe-level’ has form thinking back to Prof Dame Sally (Party Animal) Davies and her “Do I want the glass of wine or do I want to raise my risk of breast cancer?”.

    The usual excuse to hike tax on our little pleasures.

    I presume our betters will lead by example and do away with subsidised HOC bars.

  6. Best bit

    Prof David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, sounded a note of caution about the findings.

    “Given the pleasure presumably associated with moderate drinking, claiming there is no ‘safe’ level does not seem an argument for abstention,” he said.

    “There is no safe level of driving, but the government does not recommend that people avoid driving.

    “Come to think of it, there is no safe level of living, but nobody would recommend abstention.”

    Yep, we are born and inevitably we die. Have enjoyment and shorter life or puritanical life and 20 years too old and weak to do anything fulfilling.

  7. Well, if any booze is a risk then I may as well take a lot rather than a little.
    It would be a shame to die after only having miserly, miserable tiny tots.
    And no, I leave the kiddy fiddling to the non drinkers.

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